Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality)

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Edition: Reprint
Release: 2011-11-01
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0857451537
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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...a fascinating new ethnography on birth and infant death and the ways in which these twin events serve as sites for the construction of political subjectivity in areas of rural North India where multiple development projects and discourses converge, leaving in their wake both excess and lack...it provides provocative insights into some of the forces that set our globe offkilter. Medical Anthropological Quarterly Drawing on the theoretical literature of medical anthropology as well as that of psychoanalysis, this is a complex, multilayered work. Pinto is a fine writer, and throughout the book her ethnography... [that] holds together brilliantly... beautifully illuminates her theoretical argument... [and] makes a significant contribution to the literature on reproduction, globalization, and development in India. South East Review of Asian Studies ...[the] ethnography is...rich, topical, and thought-provoking. JRAI Pinto masterfully intertwines reproductive health experiences of wome Download Where There Is No Midwife for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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